REVISED FIVE-YEAR STRATEGIC PLAN 2015/16-2019/20

The Department of Basic Education (DBE) has embarked on a process of reviewing its strategic plan for 2015/16-2019/20 and the subsequent Annual Performance Plan for 2016/17 based on a policy shift or focus. This exercise is informed by the
challenge of not separating the sector functions from the National Department’s functions. This manifested itself in the type of indicators that have been in the DBE plans from 2010/11 to date. The emphasis of the Department is now to focus on its role as expressed in the National Education Policy Act (NEPA), (Act No. 27 of 1996). The revised DBE’s plan is based on its role of policy development, monitoring the implementation of policy and the oversight role expected in provinces as a result of the NEPA, mandate.
This revised strategic plan therefore identifies important strategic outcome-oriented goals and objectives against which the Department of Basic Education’s medium-term results can be measured and evaluated by Parliament. It should be read in
conjunction with other government plans and education sector plans, particularly the NDP, Action Plan to 2019: Towards the Realisation of Schooling 2030 and the Medium Term Strategic Framework (MTSF) 2014 to 2019. This Strategic Plan will inform the development of the Annual Performance Plans (APPs) of the Department over the remaining four years of the five-year electoral term.